Have you ever been to a public place and saw a breast feeding mama just plop it out and feed her baby?

Question

Not trying to sound crude, its just the way I felt like wording it, lol. I'm nursing now and I was just thinking about that, I don't think I could ever do anything like that, but I've heard of mama's doing that though.

Oh, and if you do this or have done this, more power to ya!

Answer 1

No...I've never seen a woman with breasts large enough to "plop"!!

But I nursed my kids in public all the time and continue to nurse in public as needed. I usually pull up my shirt, though, rather than plop.

I will *not* put a blanket over a child's face. The *only* people whose faces are covered with a blanket in public are *dead* people. I generally pull my shirt down to cover what can be easily covered, but babies and young children are unpredictable and can pull up a shirt or stop nursing suddenly. Yes, you might get a momentary glance at some breast. Get over it (addressed to people in general--not the questioner per se). But people who object to nursing in public (in my *many* years of nursing) don't object to what they see, but to what they *know* is happening. For instance, the last time someone objected, she (and it's *always* a woman!!) was sitting way across a crowded room, with 6 rows of people between us. The woman is average height (and there were tall men in between); I think the worst thing about my nursing "in front of her" was the damage it did to her spine and neck!! And she told me that I had been nursing discreetly...

And...as for people who say things like "People don't need to walk around seeing your boobs hanging out all over the place"...I have only one comment. You'd better hope they don't pass laws about boobs hanging out all over the place, or you'll be staying home for a *long* time!!

Answer 2

Yes, I have seen this because I am that person. I don't take off my shirt, but I DON'T put a blanket over my hot baby's head. I DON'T feed them in the bathroom. I DON'T feel guilty or try to hide what he is doing. I started having kids in my thirties. I frankly think the maturity that comes with age and education is what makes me do what is best for my baby without caring an iota what anyone else thinks. I was the same with my five year old when he was a baby. I don't flop it out, but with the baby covering the bottom, my shirt covering the top and the baby's mouth covering the nipple, there really isn't all that much to see. If you don't feel comfortable nursing in public, don't do it, but your supply will be affected if you start giving bottles instead of nursing or pumping when in public.
I am not a nipple nazi or a lactivist. I am just a mama that is doing what is natural and what is right. Baby hungry, mama feed. As I tell people who have the nerve to say something to me... stick a blanket over your head if you don't want to see it. Go in the bathroom until I am finished if you aren't comfortable. But leave me alone to do what I need to do to feed my child....


Class...????? Just so you know... women who breastfeed the longest usually have a higher socio-economic status and more educated. Statistics speak.

Working mother (with stay at home dad) of two children who never had a drop of formula in their lives.

Answer 3

I have seen it done, in fact in the city I live in, Hamilton, there is a nice but busy mall, LimeRidge Mall, there is a fountain opposite the front of the elevator where it seems to be a nice place that mother's sit to nurse their babies. I have fed my son there as well, I wasn't breastfeeding though. I wasn't able to breastfeed my son at all unfortunately. We are trying to conceive right now and if I am able to breastfeed my second baby I will anywhere anytime he/she needs to be fed. People are getting way too modist now a days, the people witnessing the breastfeeding mother are more ashamed than the mother herself. There is nothing wrong with breastfeeding in public no matter where you are. Actually I could legally walk around my city topless and it is 100% legal any day of the year, I love living in Canada. Mind you I wouldn't walk around topless, I need a bra for 2 rather large and heavy reasons.

I heard someone telling this story before that in a cafeteria for a large store, I think it was the Sears in this city, a woman was breastfeeding her baby with a light blanket over her chest and shoulder. Someone just behind her made the comment just loud enough for the mother to hear, but not to her face, that she should go feed her baby in the bathroom. The woman turned around and asked the woman who made the comment how she would like eating her meal in the bathroom and just went on nursing until her baby was done. I don't know who she was but I would have stood up and cheered for her.

Answer 4

My daughter was born with dislocated hips, so I had to take my neborn to the hospital every week for a check up. It is a hospital which is completely for infants - not kids: infants. Well, the designer must have been a man, because he neglected to add a nursing room! So there were all the new moms, waiting in the waiting room with new babies. We still could not sit comfortabley on plastic chairs, and they had installed those super modern, wavey chairs which are useless as a seat! Also, the blanket over the shoulder method is a bit hard when you are new at nursing.
I look back and laugh, but it was no joke trying to keep decently covered on those hard chairs and with a new infant! You get better at nursing in public without showing a bit of skin - it all depends on you. I am a very body-consicous person, and I never show my upper body to strangers (even shoulders and upper arms) so it was important to me to learn the method of nursing in private in public :). You can actually buy nursing slings - like a normal baby sling, with a place for the baby to nurse. Make sure you where comfy roomy shirts and a nursing bra.

Answer 5

Well if you are a nursing Mom the chances are you will come across a time you will have to feed your baby in a public place.

He/she is not going to wait for a more opportune time for YOU to pull it out! So get over the modesty and learn to carry a blanket to cover your breast and shoulder, without smothering the baby in the process of disguising your inhibitions and reservations of public views.

Breast feeding is "natural" and was what the baby was intended to nurse, long before the convenience of a plastic bottle came along.

Breast feeding is what YOU have chosen, so do so.

Forget about those on-lookers that may not like it. A baby is hungry when a baby is hungry!

You are doing the greatest thing on earth for your baby's health and nutrition.

BRAVO TO YOU!

Answer 6

As a breastfeeding mom, I know what you are talking about. When I was nursing in public I always has a receiving blanket with me to drape over the front of me and over the baby so that I was not out in the open for others to see. Some have problems with breastfeeding in public, but the way that I see it, if you are concealed there is nothing wrong with it. Your baby needs to eat also.

Answer 7

I think breastfeeding is a wonderful thing, however, as a mother of an 11 1/2 year old boy, this is a difficult situation. We were in the mall and a woman in line for the movies whipped it out without covering herself at all and my son got an extensive view of something I'm not sure he was ready to see. I think if it is done discretely, it is fine!

Answer 8

I have done it, my baby needs to eat. I don't like whip it out and let it flop around. I either use my blanket, or if I have a baggy shirt on It works. You know for all of those who don't like the breast feeding thing, think of you sucking on an udder of a cow. Now that is gross. I know you don't actually get down there, but still you drink it, where does it come from, Yes you steal it from little calfs. Now that is sick!

Answer 9

Haven't ever seen it. I have heard about it on the news though. It's now legal to do so and is not indecent exposure within South Carolina. You should check and see about your state before doing so. There are some places that even have an area now for breast feeding mom's.

Answer 10

I haven't see anyone doing it. I saw something about it on t.v. I don't have any kids so I have no idea what it would be like to need to feed your baby and your in a public place. I think that women should be discrete as possible. Like maybe you could to a fitting room/bathroom, or your car, but don't just plop it out. That would be offensive.